Merewif

Book excerpt: When Madge receives a moonstone necklace on her sixteenth birthday, she learns she is not only a mermaid, but also a witch.She isn't supposed to be both.You're either pureblooded Saelfen - what humans call mermaids - or you've got human blood in the mix, making you a witch. And witches don't have the ability to transform. But seeing she's been hidden from her kind since she was two-years-old, her Vala hidden within a necklace until now, it's a shock any of it is real in the first place, let alone the fact she is an impossible anomaly to her kind.As if wrapping her head around the fact she is a mermaid-witch wasn't enough, it also turns out her parents were royals to her kind and didn't die as she's been told they were her whole life but were murdered by her estranged aunt Viviane who is now after her. She is just a Merewif, after all. A witch, like her unworthy mother, and only pureblooded Saelfen have ever been royal and connected to the Council of the Nine, a global network of royal leaders who oversee the realms.Now she must hone her newfound Vala and unravel clues from her mother's tome if she's to not only prove herself fit to lead her kind, but also if she's to save them from an ancient, otherworldly darkness, wielded by her murderous aunt who is hell-bent on having her way. Problem is she must traverse to the Old World to do it, a place riddled with legions of demonic sirens, and Lilith, the siren queen who knows she is coming.